the great ostomate [backdated sept 26th]

a flesh wound
placed just so
stitched with
black sutures
held open
to be gaped at
some sort of
fairground oddity
the girl with the
hole in her stomach!
see her lever herself
out of bed
abdominal muscles
gone to seed
see her wince
as stitches pull beneath
her careful touch
recoil as she confesses
what this is for

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I'm Briar – Briar Lawry, if you were wondering which particular one. Raw Library is an anagram of my name and a place for my writing – about anything, in theory, but mostly about books, the music industry and chronic illness. And sometimes coffee.